# The most beautiful villages in France

Hilltop villages, medieval towns and picturesque ports, most of them labelled 'Most Beautiful Villages of France', selected from the Routard and travel guides.

- 22 votes · 18 items
- Aug 17, 2025 · madamevalise
- https://even.best/en/l/256/the-most-beautiful-villages-in-france

## Top 15

1. **Gordes (Vaucluse)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Hilltop Luberon village of dry-stone houses, near Sénanque Abbey and its lavender.
2. **Rocamadour (Lot)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Religious town clinging to a cliff face, a stop on the Way of St James.
3. **Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (Lot)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Perched on a cliff above the Lot, voted the French people's favourite village in 2012.
4. **Beynac-et-Cazenac (Dordogne)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Village below a fortress overlooking the Dordogne valley.
5. **Collioure (Pyrénées-Orientales)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Catalan port of colourful houses that inspired Matisse and Derain; the French people's favourite village in 2024.
6. **Eguisheim (Haut-Rhin)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alsatian village of concentric lanes and flower-decked half-timbered houses.
7. **Les Baux-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Medieval village on a rocky spur in the Alpilles, home to the Carrières de Lumières.
8. **Conques (Aveyron)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Camino stop famous for the abbey church of Sainte-Foy and its treasury.
9. **Riquewihr (Haut-Rhin)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Intact Alsatian wine village behind its ramparts, on the Wine Route.
10. **Roussillon (Vaucluse)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Village of ochre façades with the Ochre Trail.
11. **Yvoire (Haute-Savoie)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Flower-filled medieval town on Lake Geneva.
12. **Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert (Hérault)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Village of golden stone around Gellone Abbey, a UNESCO site.
13. **Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Faience village at the edge of the Verdon Gorge, with its star hanging over the cliffs.
14. **Gerberoy (Oise)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Small village of roses and half-timbered houses where the painter Henri Le Sidaner lived.
15. **Èze (Alpes-Maritimes)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Village perched 429 m above the Mediterranean, with its exotic garden at the top.
16. **Kaysersberg (Haut-Rhin)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alsatian village with half-timbered houses at the foot of a ruined castle, voted favorite village of the French in 2017.
17. **Rochefort-en-Terre (Morbihan)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Flower-filled Breton granite village, the French people's favourite village in 2016.
18. **Pérouges (Ain)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Fortified medieval town near Lyon, famous for its sugar galette.

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